Music hall
British pub entertainment tradition - theatrical, comedic, and crowd-pleasing in the Victorian/Edwardian style
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Songs(41)
Michelle
Parisian chanson pastiche
Paperback Writer
Character-sketch narrative style
Yellow Submarine
Good Day Sunshine
Eleanor Rigby
Character vignette in British storytelling tradition
Yellow Submarine
Good Day Sunshine
Ragtime/stride piano solo and outro
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Lovely Rita
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Edwardian variety-show address to audience
She's Leaving Home
Sentimental narrative ballad
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Variety-show farewell to the audience
When I'm Sixty-Four
Edwardian parlour-song style
Your Mother Should Know
Deliberate British music-hall pastiche
Magical Mystery Tour
Carnival/fairground barker tradition
Your Mother Should Know
British music-hall sing-along pastiche; the whole conceit is a 'hit before your mother was born'
Lady Madonna
Martha My Dear
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Singalong character, narrative verse
Honey Pie
Rocky Raccoon
Martha My Dear
Victorian parlour-song style
Honey Pie
Piggies
Satirical character-sketch tradition
Cry Baby Cry
Storybook court characters and nursery-rhyme cadence
All Together Now
All Together Now
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Mean Mr. Mustard
Character-sketch lineage
Her Majesty
You Never Give Me Your Money
Boogie-woogie middle section
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
Comic character sketch
Her Majesty
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Free as a Bird
Ukulele tag echoes Formby tradition
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